i was buying groceries today. i was going to grab some apple cider vinegar for the chicks. they had "with mother" i bought it, but i don't know why it matters. did i waste my money?
acv with "mother"
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I'm betting that wolftracks probably isn't looking for another project LOL but I'd suggest making your own.
Next time you get a bottle of ACV with the mother, sacrifice half of it. Pour it into a gallon jug. Then get 2 cans of frozen apple juice. It has to be the frozen because, like filtered ACV, the enzymes haven't been killed. 2 cans will make a gallon. So that half bottle with the gallon of reconstituted frozen apple juice gets covered with a cloth or coffee filter secured tightly with a couple rubber bands. Put it in the pantry and just let it sit for at least a month. You'll see the live mother appear on the top. It'll make a layer of slimy tan-white sort of stuff. That is the live, real, honest, mother. You can bottle your homemade ACV and for the next batch, just mix up the apple juice and plop that mother in there (hehe) and in another month you'll have another gallon of ACV and two mothers. Share the extra, put it in the compost, or cut it up small and give it to the chickens. Mine love it so long as it's cut in small enough pieces.
Edit: Don't add the Braggs or whatever until AFTER you've mixed up the apple juice and it's around room temperature.
Next time you get a bottle of ACV with the mother, sacrifice half of it. Pour it into a gallon jug. Then get 2 cans of frozen apple juice. It has to be the frozen because, like filtered ACV, the enzymes haven't been killed. 2 cans will make a gallon. So that half bottle with the gallon of reconstituted frozen apple juice gets covered with a cloth or coffee filter secured tightly with a couple rubber bands. Put it in the pantry and just let it sit for at least a month. You'll see the live mother appear on the top. It'll make a layer of slimy tan-white sort of stuff. That is the live, real, honest, mother. You can bottle your homemade ACV and for the next batch, just mix up the apple juice and plop that mother in there (hehe) and in another month you'll have another gallon of ACV and two mothers. Share the extra, put it in the compost, or cut it up small and give it to the chickens. Mine love it so long as it's cut in small enough pieces.
Edit: Don't add the Braggs or whatever until AFTER you've mixed up the apple juice and it's around room temperature.
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Vinegar is a Latin word that means "sour wine."
You are not going to produce ACV from un-fermented apple juice. All vinegars are made from alcohol derived from one source or the other but always from the action of yeast cells feeding on sugar. If it were not so then there would not be any; apple CIDER vinegar, or red WINE vinegar, or white WINE vinegar, or rice WINE vinegar, or MALT (beer) vinegar and finally there would be no reason to call DISTILLED (as in white lighting or moonshine vinegar) DISTILLED white vinegar.
When vinegar is produced it is never distilled. Instead after the chemical process that changes alcohol into vinegar is completed the resulting vinegar is diluted with pure water from 15% acidity down to (hopefully) 5% acid content. The word "distilled" on a bottle of distilled white vinegar is how the alcohol used to make white distilled vinegar was derived. In other words "distilled" vinegar is made from "moonshine" usually distilled from corn mash. I said hopefully because homemade vinegar is dangerous if it is used to preserve food because there is no way in a house hold setting to be sure that the acid content in homemade vinegar is sufficient to halt Botulism and other shu-nasty-nasty food born illnesses. If you want to use homemade vinegar in salad dressings etc. go ahead.
An alcohol content above 30 proof or 15% will kill the bacteria culture (mother) needed to make homemade ACV. The same thing is true with the acid produced by ACV or any other vinegars. An acid content above 15% will also kill "mother of vinegar." That is how some smaller vinegar manufactures know when their vinegar is ready cut or dilute and sell. The mother croaks.
You are not going to produce ACV from un-fermented apple juice. All vinegars are made from alcohol derived from one source or the other but always from the action of yeast cells feeding on sugar. If it were not so then there would not be any; apple CIDER vinegar, or red WINE vinegar, or white WINE vinegar, or rice WINE vinegar, or MALT (beer) vinegar and finally there would be no reason to call DISTILLED (as in white lighting or moonshine vinegar) DISTILLED white vinegar.
When vinegar is produced it is never distilled. Instead after the chemical process that changes alcohol into vinegar is completed the resulting vinegar is diluted with pure water from 15% acidity down to (hopefully) 5% acid content. The word "distilled" on a bottle of distilled white vinegar is how the alcohol used to make white distilled vinegar was derived. In other words "distilled" vinegar is made from "moonshine" usually distilled from corn mash. I said hopefully because homemade vinegar is dangerous if it is used to preserve food because there is no way in a house hold setting to be sure that the acid content in homemade vinegar is sufficient to halt Botulism and other shu-nasty-nasty food born illnesses. If you want to use homemade vinegar in salad dressings etc. go ahead.
An alcohol content above 30 proof or 15% will kill the bacteria culture (mother) needed to make homemade ACV. The same thing is true with the acid produced by ACV or any other vinegars. An acid content above 15% will also kill "mother of vinegar." That is how some smaller vinegar manufactures know when their vinegar is ready cut or dilute and sell. The mother croaks.
YW!
They say Wally World is now carrying it...might check there!
It's all good....nothing bad there.
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Thank you so much for your help! Ironically enough I've been stalking your posts as I love your chicken keeping style and advice! ...thankful for your wisdom and willingness to share with those of us chicken keeping orphans 
If you do write that book let me know
If you do write that book let me know
Why do you think your Birds need ACV?.... Clean fresh water is actually the best.....
Cheers!
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Some people swear that ACV MUST have "the mother" in it. I'm not one of those. I just buy whatever ACV is on sale.
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thanks for answering
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